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...brief but unusual shock passed through the whole War Department last week. No less a person than the Chief of Staff, General Charles Pelot Summerall, had been insulted. Junior officers about the Department knew the General had gone to the Army's proving grounds at Aberdeen, Md., had returned to Washington in a state df high indignation. With true esprit de corps they tried to hush up the whole affair...
...services wrangled in stuffy professionalism over this point, each claiming the sole privilege of repulsing such an aerial invasion. Quietly, almost casually, the Army last week won a victory over the Navy when, after months of conferences between Army and Navy Boards and a joint Congressional Committee, General Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff, announced that the whole assignment had been handed over to the Coast Artillery Corps...
...anthem, also the 200th anniversary of Baltimore's city charter. The Navy sent to Baltimore the big-gunned battleship New York and five other ships to fire salutes. Squadrons of Army, Navy and Marine airplanes gyrated geometrically. Three soldierly divisions paraded with artillery, cavalry, tanks. Maj. Gen. Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff, orated patriotically. In pageant and parade appeared facsimiles of Poet Edgar Allen Poe, Philanthropist Johns Hopkins, Tom Thumb (first U. S. locomotive), first telegraph, first U. S. electric car. Tolerant Baltimoreans rejoiced to see Catholic, Masonic, Jewish fraternal organizations parading amiably together. Up-and-coming Baltimoreans...
...Hoover he went to an American Legion baseball game, hurried back to his desk after the first inning to search for a new Chief of Engineers. He sat in on a War Council meeting at which the Army's 1931 budget estimates were mulled over. He prodded General Charles Pelot Summerall along on the General Staff's investigation of Army costs, was disappointed to learn that the inquiry would not be completed before November. He dissolved five infantry battalions and transferred their 1,960 men into the growing Air Corps. He untangled a badly snarled wharf problem for Kansas City...
General Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff, paid the "war" a fleeting visit, inspected the field of action. Said he: "This war game constitutes the biggest and best tactical campaign ever waged on American soil by the U. S. Army." Just what it all meant strategically he left to the War College to study...